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Friday, April 19, 2013

Is Anybody Listening? U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn't Building Nukes

By Nima Shirazi

April 19, 2013 "Information
Clearing House" -"WAIA"
-In
testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday
March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
reaffirmed what the
U.S. intelligence community has been
saying for
years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not
building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do
so.

The annual
“Worldwide
Threat Assessment,” which compiles the collective
conclusions of all American intelligence agencies, has long held
that Iran maintains defensive capabilities and has a military
doctrine of deterrence and retaliation, but is not an aggressive
state actor and has
no intention of beginning a conflict, let alone
triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

While the
U.S. intelligence community assumes that Iran already has the
technical capability to produce nuclear weapons, “should a
decision be made to do so,” Clapper’s report states (as it has
for years now), “We do not know if Iran will eventually decide
to build nuclear weapons.”

Were this
decision ever to be made, Iran wouldn’t even be able to secretly
start building a nuclear bomb. “[W]e assess Iran could not
divert safeguarded material and produce a weapon-worth of WGU
[weapons-grade uranium] before this activity is discovered,”
Clapper told Congress.

Even
Clapper, who is no stranger to
alarmism, acknowledges that “Iran prefers to avoid
direct confrontation with the United States” and would only act
defensively “in response to perceived offenses.” Iran’s
“decision making is guided by a cost-benefit approach” based on
considerations of “security, prestige and influence, as well as
the international political and security environment,” Clapper
said, thereby dismissing allegations that the Islamic Republic
is an
irrationalmartyr state. Speaking at a national security
conference in Herzliya on Thursday, Israel’s own military
intelligence chief concurred with
Clapper’s assessment. While sure to continue advancing its
nuclear program in the coming year, he said, Iran had not
actually decided to build a bomb.

In April
2010, Defense Intelligence Agency director Ronald
Burgess told the Senate Committee on Armed Services, “Iran’s
military strategy is designed to defend against external
threats, particularly from the United States and Israel” and “to
slow an invasion and force a diplomatic solution to
hostilities.” The following year, he explained that “Iran is
unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict or
launch a preemptive attack,” and
reiterated this conclusion in early 2012.

Such
hysteria and fear-mongering, as always, is simply not borne out
by the facts.

UPDATE:April 18, 2013 - Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper and director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testified
before the Senate Armed Services Committee today and
reiterated the
same assessment regarding Iran as was delivered in March
2013.

The exact same statements - verbatim - were included
in Clapper's
unclassified report, including the assessment that "Iran
is developing nuclear capabilities to enhance its security,
prestige, and regional influence and give it the ability to
develop nuclear weapons, should a decision be made to do so.
We do not know if Iran will eventually decide to build
nuclear weapons."

Of course, as Clapper notes, Iran's ability to potentially
manufacture the components is inherent to its advanced
nuclear infrastructure and is not an indication of an active
nuclear weapons program, which all U.S. intelligence
agencies agree Iran does not have.

As such, Clapper told the Senate Committee, "Iran has the
scientific, technical, and industrial capacity to eventually
produce nuclear weapons. This makes the central issue its
political will to do so."

In his testimony, Clapper stated that, were the decision to
weaponize its nuclear energy program to be made by Ayatollah
Khamenei, Iran could theoretically reach a "breakout" point
within "months, not years." His report repeats the
assessment, though, that "[d]espite this progress, we assess
Iran could not divert safeguarded material and produce a
weapon-worth of WGU before this activity is discovered."

Again, undermining the bogus claims that Iran is an
irrational and reckless actor, Clapper maintained the
judgment that "Iran's nuclear decisionmaking is guided by a
cost-benefit approach," balancing its own domestic interests
with "the international political and security environment."
Iran also has a defensive - not aggressive - military
posture, one based on "its strategy to deter - and if
necessary retaliate against -
forces in the region, including US forces" were an attack on
Iran to occur.

Sheeple

The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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